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Sequester
v. t.
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To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
Sequester
v. t.
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To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
Sequester
v. t.
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To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
Sequester
v. t.
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To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
Sequester
v. i.
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To withdraw; to retire.
Sequester
v. i.
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To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequester
n.
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A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
Sequester
n.
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Same as Sequestrum.
Sequestered
a.
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Retired; secluded.
Sequestrable
a.
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Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
Sequestral
a.
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Of or pertaining to a sequestrum.
Sequestrated
imp. & p. p.
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of Sequestrate
Sequestrating
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Sequestrate
Sequestrate
v. t.
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To sequester.
Seguestration
n.
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The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary.
Seguestration
n.
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A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court.
Seguestration
n.
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A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with.
Seguestration
n.
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The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.
Seguestration
n.
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The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Seguestration
n.
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Disunion; disjunction.
Sequestrator
n.
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One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.
Sequestrator
n.
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One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Sequestra
pl.
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of Sequestrum
Sequestrum
n.
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A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
Sequin
n.
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An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.
Sequoia
n.
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A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
Sequoiene
n.
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A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California "big tree" (Sequoia gigantea).
Seraglio
n.
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An inclosure; a place of separation.
Seraglio
n.
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The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.
Seraglio
n.
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A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.